Barry Whyte is a 'Master Inventor' working in the Systems & Technology Group based in IBM Hursley, UK. Barry primarly works on the IBM SAN Volume Controller and Storwize family of virtual disk systems. Barry graduated from The University of Glasgow in 1996 with a B.Sc (Hons) in Computing Science. In his 18 years at IBM he has also worked on the successful Serial Storage Architecture (SSA) and the IBM DS8000 range. Barry joined the SVC development team soon after its inception and has held many positions before taking on his current role as performance architect. Outside of work, Barry enjoys playing golf and all things to do with Rotary Engines. All posts on this blog are (c) Copyright International Business Machines 2014 - reproduction without prior approval is prohibited.

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Just completed my last day in the office for 2008, thanks to all my readers, all the commentors, and for the general banter in the storage blogosphere. All that remains is for me to wish you all the best over the Festive Season, and I look forward to more of the same in 2009. Merry Christmas and a... [Continue Reading]

In the final part of my 'How it Works' series I'm looking at upgrades. Both software and hardware. Maintenance Windows As the world has moved to a 24x7x52 culture, nobody can really afford many, if any, 'maintenance windows' these days. I described in part2 that to move from a non-virtual to a... [Continue Reading]

In part 1 of this series I covered the terminology of SVC. Part 2 showed how you would introduce existing volumes into a virtualized environment using SVC. In part 3 I cover the 'now what'... Making the most of it Once you have imported the data, you now have a set of disks that are simply running... [Continue Reading]

I've been off the radar for a few weeks... A decision I'd made myself, its been a hectic year, and I realised I'd been spending too much time at/with work and not enough with the family. So I decided, despite only being a Scotsman abroad (ok abroad meaning south of the border) I'd take at least the... [Continue Reading]